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Samuel E. Morison Quotes

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

Samuel E. Morison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: July 9, 1887 - May 15, 1976

Topics

History Child Reality True Must

In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned.

Time Culture Money American America

When I had no place to live and I had no place to sleep - and I did sleep in the Metro - I held steadfast to the fact that I had a dream, a reason why I'm doing this... that it was bigger than this moment.

Live Moment Sleep Doing Dream Place

Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it's not working quite the way it used to.

Morning Think Body Way Out Up

To pay attention to flattery or criticism is a waste of time for artists.

John McLaughlin

Time Criticism Attention Flattery

Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Love Flower Heart Love Is Free Will

I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.

Enemy Going Anywhere Almost Fan

When we are busy at work and busy at home, an hour's walking every day becomes a real luxury. If done alone, the walk injects a period of meditation into the day, and if done in company, it allows space for some really good conversation.

Work Good Home Alone Walk Day

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.

Business Fast Test Adjust Fail

I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today. Besides, it's a lot more fun to give while you live than to give while you are dead.

Good Live Today Fun Believe Giving

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Pope John Paul II

Family Live World Nation Whole Goes

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Funny Thought Little Pieces Books

When I told my mum I was going to play my first gig when I was 14, she couldn't believe it, cause I was painfully shy at that time. But I just done it, put my head down and got through it. And I suppose there's still a little bit of that, even though it's many years later and I've been doing it for a long time.

Time Believe Doing Long Down Play

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